Chaos imagined : literature, art, science /

Martin Meisel considers the long effort to conjure, depict, and rationalize extreme disorder, with all the passions, excitements, and compromises the act has provoked. He builds a rough history from major social, psychological, and cosmological turning points in the imagining of chaos, particularly...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meisel, Martin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Literature and society.
Chaotic behavior in systems > Social aspects.
Arts and society.
Social change.
Chaotic behavior in systems in literature.
Literature and science.
Entropy in literature.
Littérature et société.
Chaos > Aspect social.
Arts et société.
Chaos dans la littérature.
Littérature et sciences.
Entropie dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • ?. Uncertainty and Complexity: An Untethered Epilogue
  • 1. Shaping Chaos
  • 2. Nothing and Something
  • 3. Number: The One and the Many
  • 4. Carnival
  • 5. War
  • Representation
  • Condition
  • Consummation
  • 6. Energy
  • Matter in Motion (Inertia, Friction, Noise)
  • Energy Unbound
  • 7. Entropy
  • Time and Tide
  • Tristes Entropics
  • Anarchy and Endgame
  • 8. Coda, or Da capo al fine
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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